Hello there, Star Wars fans. Today is Star Wars Day ... "May the Fourth be with you," he wrote lithpingly. I am not personally a Star Wars aficionado but I do understand the impulse.
Lord of the Rings, Star Trek, Star Wars, Hunger Games, the Vampire chronicles and Harry Potter have all managed to capture rabid fans. I've seen them all. A fascinating research question would be what determines which set of imaginings (if any) grabs a particular person's fancy.
Intriguing, it is.
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For the DrsC the compulsion was the 7 Harry Potter novels, 8 films, 7 audio books read by Jim Dale, and the associated physical manifestations at Universal Studios theme park.
BTW, the "magical creatures and where to find them" spinoffs didn't work for us. Apparently many of the Star Wars spinoffs don't work for its many stans.
Later ... I'm feeling ambivalent about the notion of turning the Rowling ouvre into a TV series, with each book the scaffolding over which a yearlong season will be draped. It's beyond the talking stage, so I suppose it will happen. Can the magic be recaptured? I'm unsure.